About Management: Your Leadership Legacy and Dealing with "Lazy" Employees

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This week’s newsletter contains my latest two articles from About.com Management and Leadership:

Your Leadership Legacy

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How to Deal With a “Lazy” Employee

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Your Leadership Legacy

Guest author S. Chris Edmonds writes about how to use "The 3 Cs: Context, Courage, and Consistency" to create a lasting, positive leadership legacy.

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How to Deal With a “Lazy” Employee

When one employee is not pulling their weight, it can have a devastating impact on productivity, customer service, or sales. Today’s lean organizations can no longer tolerate anything less than 100% effort from all of their employees. However, the most negative impact a “slacker” employee can have isn’t necessary organizational results – it’s the impact on that employee’s coworkers that have to work extra hard to cover for their coworker. When a manager doesn’t see this – or, chooses not to address it - morale suffers, and ultimately, good employees will either lower their own standards or quit. Read more to find how to deal with the “lazy” employee. You might be surprised at some of the possible causes and solutions.

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Attracting and Retaining Talent Starts with Leadership

How do leaders become a part of the process of growing a “Best Place to Work” culture? Beth Armknecht Miller tells us how.

Search Related Topics: talent management talent development employee recruiting

The Top 10 Challenges a Manager Will Face

Here’s what I’ve found to be the top ten issues that can keep a manager up at night. I’ve also included a “sleep aid” for each one.

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